Sentence examples for had blocked up from inspiring English sources

We had hoped to reach it through a maze of tunnels which we'd heard ran beneath Morningside Heights, but Ms. Wheat informed us that the university had blocked up most of the tunnels, mainly because during the riots of 1968 students used them to invade buildings.

A spokesman for the peacekeepers had said on Friday that a crowd had blocked up to 10 people in a bank in Grude, near Bosnia's southern border with Croatia.

Now it's starting to look as though they've blocked up the thermal exhaust port and the Empire might actually have won.

Ban has repeatedly called for the Syrian conflict to be referred to the International Criminal Court, but the Syrian regime is not a signatory to the court's founding statute, so any referral would have to be agreed by the security council – something Russia has blocked up to now.

Hallinan said he had to break the leg of one body to get it in and that it might have blocked up the chimney, starting the blaze.

This wall has blocked up windows extending to a low level above ground, indicating that it was an external wall and proving that the eastern limb then had no aisle (Fig. 5).

In the last three weeks alone, Republicans have blocked up-or-down votes on three highly qualified nominees to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, considered by many to be the second highest court in the land.

He said the Lib Dems had blocked proposals "dreamed up by a Tory donor" to make it easier for companies to get rid of staff.

"We were wondering what this building had been, why the first-floor facade had been blocked up," he said.

3 Following up what he had already accomplished, all the gates which Theron through fear had formerly blocked up were now, on the contrary, opened up by Gelon through his contempt of the enemy, and he even constructed additional ones which might prove serviceable to him in case of urgent need.

The openings in the wall between the billiard room and the garden room had been blocked up but the rooms were reconnected in the 19th century under Sir William Henry Cope, uncovering an original doorway with a four-centred pointed arch.